You are spouting absolute nonsense. I don't have a current gen xbox nor do I have any interest in game pass. I don't even give a fuck about CoD or Blizzard's games. My reasoning is mostly wanting to see Bobby Kotick removed and this is the most likely means of seeing that happen.

Secondarily Activision seems content to sit on a mountain of IP and never use it and instead milks a small handful of IPs into burnout. Microsoft has its problems but they're generally the lesser evil in this respect and have explicitly stated their intention to bring back a lot of IPs that Activision has let languish.

This merger benefits most people who are into video games, not a "very specific subset of consumers". If anything the consumers this "hurts" is a specific subset, people exclusively interested in Sony hardware. Since Xbox, Sony, and Activision all release games on PC anyway.

As for anti-competitive, Xbox's been in "3rd place" for ages. I even have my doubts that after having bought Activision that they'll turn out a significant gain.